CIB warns of rising cybercrime
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A crime assessment by the Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) indicates that cybercrime activities will spike this year as people increasingly rely on the internet due to the pandemic.
CIB commissioner Pol Lt Gen Jirabhop Bhuridej said that while many countries including Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore saw their general crime figures fall last year, cybercrime has been on the rise.
Most people in Thailand used to regard this as a distant danger due to their lack of familiarity with the threat posed by “hackers, spyware, malware or the dark web,” Pol Lt Gen Jirabhop said.
But as more people have been shopping online and spending more time on the internet over the past…
